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DBD-mysql (3.0002)

Lots of install trouble, e.g.:

$ENV{LANG} is not 'C' execing 'perl Makefile.PL' with ENV{LANG} == 'C'
You can skip this check by: 'export LANG='C' before running 'perl Makefile.PL or by upgrading your Perl'

Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL line 76.

Bryce Nesbitt - 2006-02-24 00:16:08
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DBD-mysql (3.0002)

It's perfect interface for mysql database.

Pototskyy Oleksiy - 2006-02-01 03:58:47
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DBD-mysql (3.0002)

Very good.

But lacks mysql_enable_utf8 feature (like pg_enable_utf8) to preserve
the utf8 flag when the data is on the way from server to our script.
This simple tiny feature will seriously increase performance of the
scripts that use UTF-8 and handle it correctly, i.e. convert EACH piece
of data to UTF-8 (and always set the is_utf8 flag, if the data comes
without it). So, being sure that the encoding in which the data is
stored on the server is UTF-8, we would not have to waste time on
flagging the data; we could just set mysql_enable_utf8 to true. But
there's still no such feature. Argh.

Andy - 2006-01-19 14:11:34
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DBD-mysql (2.1021)

I backed out of this version with Red Hat Linux 9 when I ran into a compatibility problem with MySQL 4.0 and with 3.23-52. MySQL 3.23-54 would not install properly with RH 9 (not sure why). When I backed out to MySQL 3.23-52 (pre security patch :-( unfortunately), I found that there was an underlying incompatibility between GLIBC 2 that Perl 5.6 and 5.8 are compiled with and an earlier version that MySQL 3.23-52 was compiled with. I backed out DBD-mysql to 1.2216-4 which works well with 3.23-52 (oh, did I mention I did this in a RH 7.2 virtual machine running under RH 9 using VMware!).

Anyway, that's not the author's fault, but it is a consideration worth covering in the documentation to make the module easier to apply.

Robert Weissler - 2003-09-19 10:43:04
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DBD-mysql (2.9002)

This is a very nice driver, but needs some cleaning up, some more reliable and simpler builds, and some better compatibility with different mysql client/server versions (that may be more a MySQL issue than a DBD::mysql issue, I don't know).

Chris Nandor - 2003-08-25 22:25:33
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